the awesome/terrifying freedom

it's an historic day. scalia is and always was a homophobic prick.

wow, it's a great time to be gay.

it's always fascinating to me to explore the other side of things. get these people. wow! they even came up with a clever play on words: 'saddamy free zone!' these people claim that the supreme court must uphold the texas law in order to ensure a victory over saddam hussein. i guess they are justifying their argument through chaos theory: if a butterfly gets buttfucked in texas, a war is lost in iraq.

this is creepiest part, though:

"The Texas law is not an attack on any person or group, and as our Public Advocate Amicus brief points out, the Texas Anti-homosexual Sodomy law "is no more a condemnation of a person's homosexual orientation than a murder statute is a condemnation of a murderer's homicidal orientation." It is a statue which only punishes unnatural behavior."

and that is and always has been the heart of the problem of gay acceptance vs. gay tolerance. will we ever be accepted by the religious right? oh sure, they're willing to tolerate us - the way suspected murderers and crazy people on the subway are tolerated. kushner puts it best in 'angels in america' when louis says 'what I think is that what AIDS shows us is the limits of tolerance, that it’s not enough to be tolerated, because when the shit hits the fan you find out how much tolerance is worth. nothing.'

is it as hopeless to expect that these people will ever change their beliefs about homosexuality and truly accept us as it is for them to expect these laws (and the bible) to turn us straight?

i don't think so. it's always eye-opening to me to consider that some people believe that i am going to hell with the same fervor that i feel to the core of my being that i am a gay man. what makes me right? how do i know that they aren't? what constitutes belief?

oy, so much to write about on this topic. i have to stop or i'll keep going forever. another day. today, i'll be rejoicing in the fact that we've finally seen some acceptance on a governmental level.